Time perceptionAltered states of consciousness Self-consciousnessEmotion and decision-making Drug effects and drug dependence

How do we perceive time? How is the subjective experience of time
related to cognition, emotion, and body states?

Findings on the relationship between affect
and time, together with recent conceptualizations on self- and body processes
have connected time perception with emotional and bodily
states. Neural processes in the insular cortex, which are related to body
signals, feeling states as well as to self-consciousness, are constitutive mechanisms for the creation of subjective time.

Next to fundamental
research on the relationship between the experience of time with cognitive
processes and affect, I study how the sense of time is modulated in altered
states of consciousness such as in meditation or in drug-induced states as well
as in neurological and psychiatric conditions.